The crushing news this week that Miami had to dismiss defensive end Al-Quadin Muhammad and linebacker Jermaine Grace over an NCAA rules violation, along with the loss earlier this summer of linebacker Juwon Young, illustrates the difficultly first-year coach Mark Richt will have in restoring the Hurricanes to national championship-level glory.
You can build new facilities, staff up your recruiting operation, hire a nutritionist — all things Miami is now doing with Richt at the helm — but the idea that Miami is going to re-create a sentimentalized version of the 1980s with all the swagger that comes with it?